I need help booting Retropie

[AwesomeAzzy]

When I try booting retropie, it always boots up raspbian, why does this happen, there's no sign of emulationstation/retropie whatsoever. Even after formatting my sd card multiple times, nothing changes. This happens when trying to boot Version 4.2.

[AlexMurphy]

@AwesomeAzzy Do you mean it is just booting to the command line / terminal?

[AwesomeAzzy]

@AlexMurphy No, it just boots up the raspbian gui normally, even though I wrote the retropie img to the sd card

[AlexMurphy]

@AwesomeAzzy The official RetroPie image does not come with the PIXEL desktop installed. What you are saying is impossible. Unless of course you are using a third party pre-configured image. In which case I'm not able to assist you.

[celly]

@AwesomeAzzy are you trying to write the image over a NOOBS install? Make sure to format your card using a good progam like this, then write the retropie image to the sd card.

[AwesomeAzzy]

@AlexMurphy I also thought that it was impossible, I'll tell you the steps i went through.

1. I downloaded the retropie img, and formatted my sd card.
2. Then i used Win32 Disk Imager to write the img to my sd card.
   3)After that, I took out my sd card, plugged everything up, switched it on, then raspbian booted, no sign of retropie whatsoever

i downloaded retropie from this website.

[AwesomeAzzy]

@celly No, it was an sd card already formatted, so there was no NOOBS anywhere.

[A Former User]

That's weird.
Are you sure that's the SD card you're using in the pi?

[AwesomeAzzy]

@itsnitro stfu bro😂😂 yes ofc i am

[AlexMurphy]

@AwesomeAzzy Copy and paste the name of the .img file you are using. What is the unzipped size of the file?

[AlexMurphy]

@AwesomeAzzy This is the file you should be using and its' size.

[AwesomeAzzy]

@AlexMurphy  ahh, well, good thing I know where the proper one is, thanks a lot, i'll it and ill get back to you with the result.

[A Former User]

@AwesomeAzzy why are people so mean

[AwesomeAzzy]

@celly ikr smh rip dis dank world

[AwesomeAzzy]

@AlexMurphy You are a bloody legend, yasssssssss it worked, thank youuu so much brutha